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Any fans of Melanie de Biasio on this board? I haven't seen her mentioned just yet.

She is a Belgium Jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist often advertised as 'the Belgium Billy Holiday". I just discovered her music and I have only heared her two latest releases but I am pretty impressed by them.

The last one "lilies" is a pretty sparsely arranged collection of songs. Dark and brooding atmosphere somewhere between Jazz, Soul and (art) pop. And her voice; I just cannot get enough of it.

here are a song from it:

Here previous release "blackened cities" is completely different. Its an EP that contains just one 25-minute track with a full band. It often reminds me a bit of a more jazzy latter Talk Talk!

Any fans of Melanie de Biasio on this board? I haven't seen her mentioned just yet.

She is a Belgium Jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist often advertised as 'the Belgium Billy Holiday". I just discovered her music and I have only heared her two latest releases but I am pretty impressed by them.

The last one "lilies" is a pretty sparsely arranged collection of songs. Dark and brooding atmosphere somewhere between Jazz, Soul and (art) pop. And her voice; I just cannot get enough of it.

here are a song from it:

Here previous release "blackened cities" is completely different. Its an EP that contains just one 25-minute track with a full band. It often reminds me a bit of a more jazzy latter Talk Talk!

Ocean Fanfare has started the recordings of Third Nature, an album trilogi. First Nature is the first chapter. Charged with the acoustic sound of the freejazz quartet, it pays tribute to biodiversity. The wild growing interplay balances the lyrical and the melancholic.-

In my favourite old pub in town last night, a wonderful jazz track came on, which had influences of Pharaoh & Alice, with a beautiful searching soprano sax lead over an Indian style drone that also recalled some of Coltrane's remarkable tunes on soprano from the early 60s.

I asked Adam, the landlord, what the track was, & he told me this story: When his mum was in hospital, about to give birth to Adam, there was a woman in the bed next to her. It transpired that she was Ian Carr's wife. So, after Adam was born, his parents bought the one jazz record that they ever owned - Dusk Fire, by the Don Rendell & Ian Carr Quintet. Adam then said, although he now has thousands of jazz records, this is the one that has a special place in his memory, & that it remains, in his estimation, the best release by the Quintet.

I knew nothing of Carr's work prior to his more fusion-oriented work in the late-60s/early 70s. Listening to this record, alongside Shades of Blue & Live has been a revelation, & further evidence of just how distinctive the voice of British jazz had become in the mid-60s. Here's the wonderful title track from the lp:

In a postscript - I had the extraordinary opportunity to see Don Rendell, playing in a sextet led by Stan Tracey & also featuring the great Bobby Wellins, around 15 years ago at a wee seaside jazzy festival, 10 miles or so down the coast from where I live. It remains one of the musical highlights of my life.

I absolutely adore Dusk Fire (the album too), but it's from a distance their better album, IMHO
Nothing else in their other four albums (including the live one) resembles the modal jazz developped in DF...

About a decade ago, I went bonkers on 60/70's Swinging London's jazz scene
I love everything that Graham Collier did from 67 until 75 with Darius as a desert island album. Neil Ardley produced some fantastic stuff in those same years, though sometimes he went overboard with his third stream stuff.. Mike Westbrook was more uneven, but there are moments of sheer brilliance in Citabel & Metropolis. And of course The Cortege, but that's 80's stuff
As for Michael Garrick, his trilogy with his sextet (from Lotus until Troppo) is stupendous IMHO

there is plenty more too

my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from heroin-addicts to crazy ones